Life May Have Started as Sticky Goo, Long Before Cells Even Existed <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/kombucha-biofilm.jpg" alt="Life May Have Started as Sticky Goo, Long Before Cells Even Existed"/>Jelly world.

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Life May Have Started as Sticky Goo, Long Before Cells Even Existed

Scientists have many theories about how Earth&#039;s raw materials turned into living cells, but a new proposal is particularly slimy.

Will Exercise Help Your Osteoarthritis? A New Review Has Surprising Findings <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/Runner-Stopped-with-Knee-Pain-Outdoors.jpg" alt="A man's hands holding his knee while on a break from running outdoors. His knee is strapped with blue sports tape"/>It's important to get the full story.

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Will Exercise Help Your Osteoarthritis? A New Review Has Surprising Findings

Osteoarthritis is a common degenerative joint disease that causes pain, stiffness, and swelling and reduces your range of motion.

Play Can Make Adults Feel Happier And Less Stressed, Research Shows <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/ManOnASwingPossiblyHavingFun.jpg" alt="Close up of a man's face, leaning back on a swing"/>It's not just for kids.

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Play Can Make Adults Feel Happier And Less Stressed, Research Shows

Somewhere along the way to adulthood, time to play fades away.

Scientists Simulated The Big Bang's Aftermath, And Found The Universe Was Like Soup <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/TwoParticlesInBlueMedium.jpg" alt="Scientists Simulated The Big Bang's Aftermath, And Found The Universe Was Like Soup"/>Mmm, delicious.

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Scientists Simulated The Big Bang&#039;s Aftermath, And Found The Universe Was Like Soup

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree &#039;soup&#039; of unimaginably dense plasma.

This Strange Spiky Dinosaur Had Skin Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/haolong_cover_full_light.jpg" alt="This Strange Spiky Dinosaur Had Skin Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen"/>But what was it for?

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This Strange Spiky Dinosaur Had Skin Unlike Anything We&#039;ve Ever Seen

Some dinosaurs were scaly, some were covered in bony plates of armor, and others were even feathered.

Men Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age. We Finally Know The Cost. <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/ManinBlueRedLight.jpg" alt="Men Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age. We Finally Know The Cost."/>The evidence is accumulating.

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Men Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age. We Finally Know The Cost.

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age.

This Extreme Radiation-Resistant Organism Evolved a Remarkable Ability <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/thermococcus-gammatolerans.jpg" alt="This Extreme Radiation-Resistant Organism Evolved a Remarkable Ability"/>How is this possible?

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This Extreme Radiation-Resistant Organism Evolved a Remarkable Ability

In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life mig...

This Week in Science: Children of Chernobyl, Hair Loss Light Therapy, And More! <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/RedLightTherapy.jpg"/>Our weekly science news roundup.

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This Week in Science: Children of Chernobyl, Hair Loss Light Therapy, And More!

This week in science: the generational effects of nuclear radiation discovered in the children of Chernobyl cleanup workers; simple habits that cou...

Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/weightlifting-shoes.jpg" alt="Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights"/>It does matter.

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Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights

If you go to the gym often, you might have been told you shouldn&#039;t lift weights in runners.

Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/endoplasmic-reticulum-1.jpg" alt="microscope image of endoplasmic reticulum proteins"/>A new path to longevity?

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Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals

A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously unknown adaptation to aging ...

This Comet Mysteriously Reversed Its Spin After Passing The Sun, But Why? <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/comet-41p.jpg"/>We've never seen this before.

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This Comet Mysteriously Reversed Its Spin After Passing The Sun, But Why?

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/ProjectSilicaMedia.jpg" alt="A square with blue columns, on a black background"/>'Written' with femtosecond laser flashes.

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This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary piec...

California's Death Cap Mushrooms Are Making New Compounds, Scientists Discover <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/death-cap.jpg" alt="California's Death Cap Mushrooms Are Making New Compounds, Scientists Discover"/>A versatile killer is rapidly evolving.

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California&#039;s Death Cap Mushrooms Are Making New Compounds, Scientists Discover

The poisonous death cap mushroom gives the entire fungi kingdom a bad rap, and it turns out they&#039;re not only spreading across continents, they...

Astronomers Say They've Found Their Strongest Dark Galaxy Candidate Yet <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/low-surface-brightness-galaxy-CDG-2.jpg" alt="A field of space with a dozen white foreground stars and a number of small, yellow background galaxies. An unremarkable area at centre is outlined with a dashed circle surrounded by a white box."/>So few stars it was detected in a whole new way.

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Astronomers Say They&#039;ve Found Their Strongest Dark Galaxy Candidate Yet

Everybody knows that galaxies are large structures made of stars.

NASA Retries Crucial Fueling Test For Moon Rocket After Dangerous Leaks <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/NASAs-Artemis-Rocket-Leaving-VAB.jpg" alt="NASA's Artemis II rocket is brightly litin daylight in the center of the image, with high contrast equipment in the darkness of a building surrounding it"/>The outcome will decide if astronauts launch in March.

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NASA Retries Crucial Fueling Test For Moon Rocket After Dangerous Leaks

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Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Review Finds <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/angryman_supplements_header.jpg" alt="angry man yelling"/>Blowing off steam may do more harm than good.

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Venting Doesn&#039;t Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Review Finds

Venting when angry seems sensible.

Astonishing Spinosaur Unearthed in The Sahara Is Unlike Any Seen Before <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/Paul-Sereno-with-Spinosaurus-mirabilis.jpg" alt="a studio portrait, black background, of a middle-age white man with black hair in a grey sleeveless shirt and a chain standing behind a massive dinosaur skull. the skull has a long snout, pointed teeth, and on its forehead, a pointed crest of bone."/>"This find was so sudden and amazing."

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Astonishing Spinosaur Unearthed in The Sahara Is Unlike Any Seen Before

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen before on this kind of din...

Some Brain Cells Resist Dementia, And Scientists Finally Know Why <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/NeuronsInANetworkBrightOrange.jpg" alt="A glowing orange center is seen in a blue neuron cell network, on a black background"/>They screened nearly every gene in the human genome.

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Some Brain Cells Resist Dementia, And Scientists Finally Know Why

Some brain cells can resist the toxic processes associated with Alzheimer&#039;s disease and other forms of dementia.

Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/deer-ultraviolet.jpg" alt="Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests"/>It's the first time we've ever seen this.

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Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal <img width="1200" height="675" src="https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/geoid-anomaly.jpg" alt="Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal"/>Drums in the deep.

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Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal

Although Earth is approximately spherical, its gravity field doesn&#039;t adhere to the same geometry.